A transgenic plant having a nucleic acid molecule of a pathogen, wherein the transgenic plant has increased resistance to infection by the pathogen. The nucleic acid molecule of the pathogen is one of (a) a portion of a polynucleotide coding for a protein of the pathogen; (b) a complementary sequence to (a); (c) a combination of (a) and (b); and (d) a combination of (a) and (b) further having a spacer nucleotide sequence. The protein of the pathogen is one of a protein involved in chromatin remodeling in the pathogen, a protein in a recombination pathway of the pathogen, a protein in a nucleotide repair pathway of the pathogen, a protein for post transcriptional processing of RNA in the pathogen, or combinations thereof.